How to make Cake Mix Cookies with ANY mix and ANY flavor!

If you have cake mix in your pantry and you feel like using it up , but you don't want to make a cake .

You should make cake mix cookies .

And today I'm going to show you how to do it with tons of different cake mixes and lots of different mix ins and ideas .

You're not gonna want to miss it .

Hey , everyone .

It's Dorothy with Crazy for crust dot com and welcome back to my kitchen .

Today .

We're talking all about cookies , cake mix cookies .

Those are cookies that are made from a cake mix with just three basic ingredients .

You can use any flavor cake mix and you can use any like add in chocolate chips .

You can leave them plain do frosting .

There are so many different ways you can make these cookies .

They're super soft and delicious and easy .

You're gonna love them .

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Now let's get in the kitchen .

All right , for this recipe , you just need a basic cake mix .

It can be any brand .

Um Most of the cake mixes nowadays are between 15 and 16 ounces .

Um the regular ones .

Um Betty Crocker Duncan Heinz , they're all 15.25 ounces .

You can check that down here .

So just make sure that you're using a box that has between 15 and 16 ounces in it .

Um , to use this recipe .

Now , you can choose any flavor you want .

So today we're gonna make lemon , chocolate vanilla red velvet .

You can use any flavor , cake mix and any brand and this recipe still works .

This recipe is super simple .

It's a one bowl recipe .

All you have to do is add your three ingredients to the bowl .

That's going to be a half of a cup of melted butter , your cake mix and two large eggs .

That's it .

That's all you need to make cake mix cookies .

Three simple ingredients .

Now , I know a lot of cookie recipes start with softened butter .

I like using melted because it makes it super simple .

I don't have to use a mixer .

I can just stir it by hand .

I know some cake mix cookie recipes call for oil .

I just like the flavor of butter better .

And I also find that they don't spread as much if you're using butter than if you're using oil .

Once it's all combined , you have to decide what you want to add for your mix ins .

So for the chocolate cookies today , we're adding chocolate chips for the yellow cake mix .

I'm adding M and MS uh for the strawberry cake mix and the lemon cake mix .

I'm adding white chocolate chips and today I'm leaving the red velvet cookies plain , but you can add anything you want .

You can use any kind of chips , you can add nuts , any kind of chopped candy , chopped Oreos or similar kinds of cookies .

Sprinkles .

I've done this so many different ways .

Use any mix ins that you want .

All right .

Once you have your mix in , stirred in , then it's time to scoop your cookies .

So again , you can make these any size that you want .

I like a two table spoon cookie scoop .

I find that it makes a nice cookie and you get about 24 of them .

So go ahead and scoop those onto your cookie sheet .

Now , we're not gonna bake these right away .

I know you probably want them right now , but you have to chill this dough especially because we started with melted butter .

If we don't want them to just spread and flatten all over our cookie sheets , we need to put them in the refrigerator , chill them for at least 30 minutes or an hour .

Once the cookies are chilled , preheat your oven to 350 degrees .

And then you're gonna spread your cookies out on your cookie sheet .

Make sure to use parchment paper or a still baking mat so that they don't stick and you're going to bake these until they are no longer glossy on top .

Now , if we compare the different cookies .

You'll see that the vanilla strawberry and chocolate ones I made , um , stayed really puffy and they do kind of flatten a little bit as they start to cool , they fall just a slight bit but they're still nice and thick and puffy .

Um , and if you look at the red velvet and lemon cookies , they're a lot flatter .

And that's because those are Duncan Heinz versus Betty Crocker .

So there are differences between the cake mix .

Um , which is why it's really , really important to chill the dough .

Um If we had just baked those lemon or red velvet , the Dunkin Heinz ones right off the bat , they would have completely flattened and been like a gooey mess on the , on the cookie sheet .

So you have to make sure and chill them .

They are and just know that if you're using Dunk and Heinz , they're gonna be a little bit flatter .

If you're using Betty Crocker , they're gonna be a little bit fatter .

So that's just kind of that also tells you , do you want fat cookies or do you want skinny cookies that will kind of help you decide which cake mix brand to buy .

Now with the red velvet cookies , I'm using a cream cheese frosting .

You can buy a can , you can use my cream cheese frosting recipe , which I will link up here .

Um Just to frost the cookies .

I love cream cheese frosting with red velvet .

I mean the frosting would go you could frost any of these cookies .

So again , it's making a cake , mixed cookie .

It's one of those things where it's really what you're feeling like , clean out your pantry .

See what you have that you want to use up and use those as mix ins .

There's so many different ways .

It's so versatile to make these cookies .

You can see that they're nice and soft and gooey inside regardless of what brand or what flavor .

Um The flavors , it really does have that cake taste .

So it's like you're eating cake and a cookie and it kind of is like a mind game .

It's like wait , is this a cake or is it a cookie ?

Because it has the texture of a cookie ?

But that tell tale flavor of cake that you expect from a cake mix .

These are so delicious .

Um There's so many different ways to make them .

I want you to leave me a comment and let me know which cake mix and what mix ins that you would use , what would be your favorite and then just keep watching for even more cookie recipes .